The Spiritual Life of the Microbiome (with Aminah Bradford and Jonathan Blake)
In 2014, the breakthrough Human Microbiome Project confirmed that – within our own bodies – we are outnumbered. For every human cell, there are three bacterial microbes residing in our gut and through...
23 Sep 202541min
The Wisdom of Not Knowing (with Pico Iyer and Nathan Gardels)
We live in a culture hooked on speed and certainty. Hot takes, quick fixes, and algorithms that claim to know us better than we know ourselves. Yet despite all the information at our fingertips, the w...
16 Sep 202559min
The Artful Politics of Picturing the Cosmos (with Lois Rosson and Claire Webb)
Each and every image of the cosmos is an act of interpretation. Scientists collaborate with artists and illustrators to saturate the colorless data of distant nebulae and galaxies and invoke awe. They...
9 Sep 20251h 31min
Why Globalization Can't Stop War Anymore (with Pascal Lamy and Lorenzo Marsili)
For decades, world leaders told us that global trade would keep the peace. Markets would bind nations together, and economic interdependence would make conflict too costly to pursue. That logic shaped...
2 Sep 202544min
The Making of Ideas That Matter (with Nicolas Berggruen and Nathan Gardels)
The Berggruen Institute began with a simple conviction: ideas shape the world. Out of the wreckage of the 2008 financial crisis,the Institute's co-founders – Nicolas Berggruen and Nathan Gardels – set...
26 Aug 20251h 5min
A Breakdown in Global Governance (with Nathan Gardels and Anne-Marie Slaughter)
The liberal world order was built for a different era — more centralized, more hierarchical, more predictable. In the 21st century, power has gone fluid. It flows through supply chains and satellites,...
19 Aug 202558min
The Cyborg Watershed of the American West (with Lauren Bon and Grant Slater)
The ever-branching network of lakes, rivers, and streams that flow west from the Rockies enable human life to flourish in one of the hottest places on Earth. This is a “cyborg watershed” – part natur...
12 Aug 20251h 20min
The Death Knell of the Nation-State (with Rana Dasgupta and Jonathan Blake)
The modern nation-state wasn’t just a conglomeration of laws and armies. It was a belief in borders, in belonging, in the promise that citizenship could ground identity in a chaotic world. That belief...
5 Aug 20251h 23min
